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"The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrong-headed as it is familiar.
Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemies is to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound significance at the very heart of democratic culture.".
"There is no one in America better to write on this topic. One of the country's most accomplished poets, Robert Pinsky served an unprecedented two terms as America's Poet Laureate (1997-2000) and led the immensely popular multimedia Favorite Poem Project, which invited Americans to submit and read aloud their favorite poems.
Pinsky draws on his experiences and on characteristically sharp and elegant observations of individual poems to argue that expecting poetry to compete with show business is to mistake its greatest democratic strength - its intimate, human scale - as a weakness."--BOOK JACKET.
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American poetry, Culture in literature, Democracy in literature, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Poetry, Gedichten, LITERARY CRITICISM, Democratie, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, United states, intellectual life, Politics in literaturePlaces
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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
2009, Princeton University Press
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1400825156 9781400825158
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Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry
2002, Princeton University Press
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0691096171 9780691096179
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